It would be unfair if compare it to elden ring, but i think they really need to smooth the animations like making your attack where your aims at would be a good start or dont need to hold right click to roll.

Plenty of ways to defend beyond dodging. Parry shield, obstacles, choke points, positioning yourself when fighting multiple mobs so you don't get surrounded...

It could use some work, but it isn't that bad. I've seen worse.

I tryed to defend a troll and got smashed

Originally posted by Hian Gomes:

It would be unfair if compare it to elden ring, but i think they really need to smooth the animations like making your attack where your aims at would be a good start or dont need to hold right click to roll.

Elden Ring combat has it's frustrations too. I.E. Mounted combat.

It is just you.

I think the lack of initial weapons also makes the game kinda boring at the start

Originally posted by Trakehner:

Originally posted by Hian Gomes:

It would be unfair if compare it to elden ring, but i think they really need to smooth the animations like making your attack where your aims at would be a good start or dont need to hold right click to roll.

Elden Ring combat has it's frustrations too. I.E. Mounted combat.

Yeah turning the horse in cliffs also its kinda frustrating

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

It is just you.

What aspects do you like about the combat?

I don't even know how to roll, so it's not a necessity, and you don't fight a troll until you're ready, or use a bow. You can run from pretty much everything in the game if you aren't prepared to fight it.

I don't know what you mean about lack of initial weapons. You can make a stone axe out of sticks and rocks. That's plenty for the meadows.

Axes arent my thing and the dagger feels meh

Also the spear moveset its one of the worst spears i ever seen in a videogame

Originally posted by Hian Gomes:

Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

It is just you.

What aspects do you like about the combat?

I actually like that you don't have to key bind your jump into another key and blocking before rolling just helps you defend yourself if your roll is late with addition that blocking always faces at the camera you are facing but your character can run backwards/towards you when not blocking imo it's quiet good for none AAA title probably better than some flashy AAA games where combat is 2 dimensional it's just full of effects and flashy ♥♥♥♥.
In addition compared to other souls games of earlier the parry and blocking system of valheim is superior because in darksouls you get locked into an animation when you parry and you certainly aren't gonna hit multiple enemies with a riposte to be honest when you give it 5 min of your thoughts outside the animation valheims combat is up there in some of the best ones.

Originally posted by Hian Gomes:

Axes arent my thing and the dagger feels meh

Also the spear moveset its one of the worst spears i ever seen in a videogame

I killed my first troll buck neked using a spear by rolling and throwing multiple spears. I could understand your frustration with the spear too as It was my main weapon as well until I got the atgeir but imo I think they wanted the spear to be thrown and a cost effective alternative on multiplayer.

My advice with rolling is to roll to the side when troll swings downwards and towards the troll when he does a sweep and in the plains biome later in the game you will have
to face fuling berserkers they're attack pattern will be the same with trolls just attacking more often and has a 3 overhead strike so learning to fight a troll in melee will make you quiet an expert for the rest of the game. You want to block and to roll a lot when taking on tar monsters too so it's a learning curve that was intentionally put there as it's very useful if you want to master valheim melee combat but you can always just circumvent it with using bow and arrows and other strategies for lesser gamers.

Originally posted by ddpaule:

... and other strategies for lesser gamers.

We prefer the term "Combat Engineers" tyvm.

Originally posted by ddpaule:

it's very useful if you want to master valheim melee combat but you can always just circumvent it with using bow and arrows and other strategies for lesser gamers.

Nice!

Us "lesser gamers" also find blocking and thrusting with a sword very effective against, well, pretty much anything. No need to roll around on the ground. Just take the hit and hit back harder!

Compared to what? I mean, the animation and combat play is much better than my roguelike games in ASCII mode. It is comparable to other indy offerings at this stage of development. I mean they don't have dozens of people with specialized talents to throw at it. I'd have thought that kind of goes with the whole 'indy' dev thing, sounds like you're expecting AAA release quality.